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spoke out-loud my longing;
please let me see--
then sharpened my eyes to observe
below the cloaked surface,

a thing so undervalued captured my attention
take, for instance, the average forest tree
stretching up of many, uncounted - able to touch
the blue sky, taken for granted by familiar eyes,
but I saw it there in its rooted place,
unique-- that one,

it's true, just one of man...

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